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[onQ123]

Our little blue buddy could have died with Dreamcast but here he is 20+ years later spinning up a storm.

Sega hardware died so Sonic could live.

Are there any other Games/franchises that became bigger than it's originally platform?

 

[Loomy]

Mario

 

[yurqqa]

Most Sonic games were very questionable, so "lived longer" - yes, "became bigger than it's originally platform" - I'm not sure.

 

[nkarafo]

But he did die.

What you see now is his corpse being puppeteered Weekend at Bernie's style.

 

[onQ123]

Mario

Is this about Atari or Nintendo?

 

[BennyBlanco]

Fallout went from a cult classic CRPG to a massive seller under Bethesda and now a big time TV show

 

[Saber]

Sonic is famous for a multitute of reasons, but games for most of times weren't one them. There was some goodies about Sonic games but a bunch of low ass crappy ones.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Sonic games suck. Terrible trade-off. Despite all of the quality IPs they have SEGA has gone with the most mediocre one. Only minor exception is Yakuza franchise, which is now a shell of itself as Judgment is the true spiritual successor.

 

[DeVeAn]

Neogaf seems to HATE Sonic. Huge part of history as it helped SEGA over take Nintendo for a time. Most the games are fun with a handful of stinkers.

 

[BlackTron]

Sonic games have been meh since Dreamcast so whatever.

Even when everything else is okay, the physics and analog control is an insult.

My de facto 3D Sonic is SA1 and it played a big part motivating me to mod and OC a 2nd gen Switch.

Call it a skill issue if you want, but in X Shadow I can hardly ever line up my hedgehog for a rail after a long straightaway or something like that, though the levels are designed to account for it with walls and homing attack targets so you won't die, that isn't really a substitute for controlling where you're going. In my first playthrough of SA1 and 2, sometimes I even finished levels in unintended ways, just by running and rolling where I wanted to try with great precision, like how a platform game works...

 

[Zacfoldor]

The problem with Sonic is it has had some issues with quality over the years.

 

[Unknown?]

Hey mustache man, plumber boy.... Your worst nightmare has arrived(beating you in the charts)!

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

The music on the mega drive ones are amazing and sonic 1 2 3 and knuckles we're good but everything else sucks there's fuck all originality shadow the hedgehog silver the hedgehog how boring and smear test

 

[OGM_Madness]

Most Sonic games were very questionable, so "lived longer" - yes, "became bigger than it's originally platform" - I'm not sure.

Sonic 3 is coming to theaters this month.

3 movies and a tie-in series later, I think Sonic is pretty big.

Most of the games are jank af tho

 

[loktaiextatus]

Fallout went from a cult classic CRPG to a massive seller under Bethesda and now a big time TV show

I would not say it was a "cult classic" it was a major PC release and was very popular- but I GET what youre saying- but it was not a "niche" it was very well loved and not really "cult" on the PC side- most PC gamers raved about it in its day it didnt slip under the radar remotely, it did well, got a good sequel and fallout tactics, It was already a BIG name and not faded out or forgotten in the least by the time Bethesda got ahold of it in 2004. I honestly think it was GAMING that got big and went mainstream and dragged fallout with it- but the bethesda games are some of their best work- hard to know where to place credit when the world was already so rich, and well loved.

 

[bender]

Sega hardware died so Sonic could live.

And we all lost because of this.